I’m firmly left and have started to see your perspective a bit more recently. I think we tend to generalize groups of people by their bad examples, which is also done to and by centrists.

I’m thankful for the perspective of reasonable centrists, who are able to look at the reality of a situation and judge fairly, to add nuance and build bridges. What affirmed me in my group think for a long time was radicalized centrists, who are more interested in equating left and right regardless of circumstance, than in grasping problems with an open mind.

But I think I understand how that happens. It’s frustrating for many leftists to have to choose between two options they don’t agree with, center and right, so some become blind to their differences and fall into group-think. Maybe it is the same for centrists, some of which also start to portray all left and right as dumb ideologues and themselves as above criticism from other worldviews.

So I agree with you. We should think about singular choices more than about sides. And frankly, I really enjoy finding common ground with people from different walks of life recently.

Perhaps Briar? I keep wanting to try it, but don’t have contacts that also do. It runs offline through Bluetooth and WiFi direct as well as online through TOR.

In Germany, the far-right launched Stolzmonat (literal translation of Pride Month) to drown out queer pride with national pride. A queer influencer managed to have it trademarked and take it from them. Now queer people celebrate Stolzmonat.

Berlin of the 20s was probably the most liberal place for queer people in the west. Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld founded the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and wrote the first paper on trans identities, gave people counseling, hormones and recommended surgeons.

He was able to decriminalise homosexuality and have trans people allowed to present “sex non-conforming” in public if they had a slip from him.

The Nazis used this for culture wars and promise a return to the golden time of tradition and morality.

His institute was raided in the first book burning, thousand of scientific papers are lost forever, his patients hunted down. He managed to flee to France.

It’s important to treat his persona critically though, because as a scientist of his time, he also adopted some problematic stances on eugenics and racial teachings. On the other hand, he was also one of the few that criticised the rigor of the science behind those teachings from time to time.

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Exactly, and cats kill like 200x more birds than wind turbines do. Window panes also kill more. Suggest doing something about that and you’ll experience people’s wrath.

Edit: Had to delete two comments, because I accidentally triple-commented.

I suppose the argument is about offshore windparks. Whales specifically have insanely sensitive hearing and can communicate over hundreds of miles, so it seems like an intuitive argument that the turbines’ vibrations affect them negatively.

Conservational efforts are definitely important when picking a location. But in the end, it’s probably similar to the bird argument, which is not a completely fabricated concern, but has been distorted and overblown so much that it doesn’t have much to do with reality anymore.

I somehow never thought about that. How does that work? Do they use a giant network of pneumatic tubes?